Investigators arrested and later freed on bond an Israeli tourist they believe inadvertently set off the massive blaze on Tuesday by failing to properly extinguish a roll of toilet paper he had been burning.

The Israeli, 23-year-old Rotem Singer, denies starting the fire and his family accuses the Chilean authorities of making him a scapegoat for the disaster.

Singer faces up to 60 days in jail and a fine if found guilty.

“It is very important to me to say that I was not the one who started this fire,” Singer said on CNN Chile. “They just dumped this on me.”

“I did not think the trial was going to be handled the way it was. I never confessed,” Singer said, adding that reports to that effect -resulted from “a translation error.”

Singer’s father Hezi earlier told Israeli military radio: “He could not have caused this disaster. He was a kilometer away from the fire when his friends woke him up.”

Pinera has said the park, visited annually by 100,000 tourists, will remain shut throughout this month.

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